The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Chhattisgarh's 'Hamar Lab' is a medical game-changer

Globally recognised organisations including the CDC, the Clinton Foundation, and domestic pharmaceutical and health care companies have sent their teams to visit the centres and study the concept,......

'Our community has lost a giant'

Urvashi Vaid dreamed of a common movement for social justice that could address them all: Racism, gender oppression and homophobia.Sandip Roy salutes the memory of Urvashi Vaid, one of America's......

Can India Be A 'Vishwaguru'?

Many of the stories, the pictures going out of India worldwide lately with these provocative processions, taunting of Muslims, bulldozers targeting mostly their properties, the sweeping 'othering'......

Foolish ant and intelligent grasshopper - 2012 version

Call it by whatever name, the economic system of modern times favors indiscipline of individuals, societies and governments. Remember Aesop's parable of ant and grasshopper? The ant works hard all......

US fully understands India's oil dependence on Iran: Krishna

Iran has been an important source of fulfilling India's oil requirements and United States 'fully understands' it, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said here two days after his American......

US exempts India, six others from Iran sanctions

US said it would exempt India and six other countries from financial sanctions because they have significantly cut purchases of Iranian oil."Today I have made the determination that seven economies......

India enjoys strategic autonomy in ties: Blake

Despite a strategic engagement that has brought the two countries into closer convergence, the US does not always expect India to toe its line and recognises New Delhi's strategic autonomy, a top......

'My heart beats in this gorgeous boy'

'I don't like the fact that everyday Taimur's moves are monitored. I don't know how to stop it.'   IMAGE: Kareena Kapoor enjoys a family lunch with her son Taimur, her sister Karisma and her......

'Telugu cinema never expanded into meaningful cinema'

'I prefer calling myself a 'film activist' rather than a filmmaker,' Mahesh Kathi tells Radhika Rajamani/ Rediff.com Mahesh Kathi is ready with the first ever crowd-funded, crowd-sourced film in......